What intelligent and informed voters?

Shortly after the election, an Obama backer by the initials of J.R. wrote in Sound Off, “This is for Sue, Tex, Buck, de Carville and all the area’s rock-ribbed, right wing, ultra-conservative Republicans: How do you like those apples?” Fair enough. Winners get to celebrate, losers mourn. But the comment that followed suggesting “intelligent informed voters” prevailed is presumptuous, to say the least.

I rather doubt the majority of Democrats gave two figs about our mounting debt and deficits, nor the extent to which our Constitution is being trashed. The pursuit of a socialist Democratic agenda along the lines of European democracies is of greater importance. And I’m dead certain that the intelligent folks in the 57 Philadelphia precincts (not one of them who voted for Mitt Romney) and other similar voting blocs throughout the United States, have no idea where Benghazi is, nor which country it’s in.

Here, however, is the kind of issue conservatives and Republicans were/are concerned about as we went to the polls, but the Democratic Party lapdog media has no interest in reporting the news fairly and as long as this corrupt state of affairs prevails, we will continue to have one-party dominance. Anyway, here is one issue we should be voting on, i.e. braking runaway welfare expenditures:

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Fact: Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent (!) over the past four years. fattened by President Obama’s stimulus spending and swelled by a growing number of Americans whose recession-depleted incomes now qualify them for public assistance.

Federal spending on more than 80 low-income assistance programs reached $746 billion in 2011, and state spending on those programs brought the total to $1.03 trillion, according to figures from the Congressional Research Service and the Senate Budget Committee.

That makes welfare the single biggest chunk of federal spending — topping Social Security and basic defense spending. (From www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/18/welfare-spending-jumps-32-percent-four-years/?page=all

So there you have it. This is an example of what the election should have been about but thanks to the media it was once again a popularity contest, not about the issues, nothing serious, just about The View, David Letterman, Las Vegas, avoidance of Benghazi, Sandra Fluke for Pete’s Sake and the Life of Julia, endless welfare, phony disability benefits, Romney’s tax returns, Bain Capital (mostly long after he had left), avoiding work, angry people, Obama pitting people against each other, grievances, and more grievances, everyone’s yelling at each other. And it works, this strategy of dividing and conquering, actually worked (notice the past tense).

And now this great divider, this great destructive campaigner whom we know can’t govern, we’re supposed to work with this guy the next four years? Good luck with that.

Finally, elections will have no meaning unless we have an informed electorate. Eight years ago we elected an unknown. What’s our excuse now? Clearly, the common denominator is a corrupt media.